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There's a program called Hitman Pro that's written in AutoIT, that downloads / updates then runs all the free spyware programs automatically one after another, and you can configure it to shut down when it finishes.

http://www.hitmanpro.nl/

The site's in Dutch, but click download, then you can ...

Helicopter scrolling game demo tutorial at

http://www.3dcurrman.com/tutorial.htm

and other game examples, some with source

http://www.purearea.net/pb/english/projects_game.htm

Am I doing something wrong? Now when I press the play button, it comes up straightaway with Yikes Game Over. No tiles at all - the top circle stays blank. The question mark doesn't do anything either.

(I always thought I was rather good at Tetris, and so I should be with the amount of time invested ...

Just downloaded again, and mine goes at warp speed straight away - I have to kill the program.

Compaq laptop - Celeron CPU 1.70Ghz. Video - SiS M650 integrated graphics with 64mb shared memory.

Program looks nice, though I have turn the sound off straightaway!

The Delphi people have a couple of programs that do this well - a commercial one at http://www.baltsoft.com
and a free one at http://www.d-tnt.co.uk/

Each is a program that contain articles and examples of code, and you can add your own. It is updateable by internet, so there is a central server ...

Thanks for pointing this lib out to me - it looks interesting. (Those german to english translation pages are sooo funny.)

I think the maximum field length may be 127, as I changed your Folder and Filename fields from length 200 to 127 and your program works (with edbWriteRecord(0))

But it does ...

I wanted to do this too, but it's too hard for me at the moment.

To point you in the direction I was heading, there's documentation in the Windows API help file, under Shell Extensions, and Icon Handlers.

Let me know when you've worked it out -

Can you use a Preference file? These are like .ini files, and are really easy to save into and read.

And Dare2, he was dreaming
Of code that would be late -
By writing polls and poems
He would procrastinate.

blueb - I haven't done anything with Cheetah, except for work out the basic functions, but I had difficulty with puts until I used the record number:


; Find Record
CallFunction(0, "XDBMOVEFIRST_Z", DBHandle,0)
; Get Record Number
recno.l = CallFunction(0, "XDBRECORDNUMBER_Z", DBHandle)
; (Do ...

Yes, Programming Windows by Petzold - sorry - I thought everybody owned one, like the Bible.

Mine is Programming Windows 95, and I still use it for XP.

I like the LCC No Frills approach to C, especially with learning the API.

Haven't done any C since I found PB, but I think knowledge of C really helps.

For tutorials, I like the about.com ones, if you can stand the adverts - the Delphi ones are really good:

http://cplus.about.com/library/blctut ...

Thanks, Weave, I'll take a look - still open to any other suggestions about non-ODBC databases.

Well, my (non-)progress is this:

I ran it on XP home, XP pro, win 98 and the 2 examples I gave were fine. So then I transferred the interface to a much more complicated program that opens multiple files. It crashed on an AllocateMemory statement. I put in a plain vanilla AllocateMemory(5), and it ...

I could be wrong, but I believe Interfaces for DLLs are really for interfacing to COM / ActiveX.

You can imitate OOP using Interfaces, but I can't think why you'd want to in this case, as I don't believe it would be very fast.

Can you just create a procedure to call the DLL procedure (although ...